My state has one slightly weird law like that. For deer our rifles have to be .243 or larger. However, we can hunt with pistol calibers, to include black powder pistols. Every year we have an opportunity to send in what we would like to see on proposed hunting law changes. I sent in a very detailed report, with ballistic information on the calibers, showing that rifles such as the .223 were much more effective deer cartridges than the pistol caliber stuff. Crickets.

7x57. Classic whitetail cartridge. One of my bucket list guns is a 7x57 with a Mannlicher/international stock. Sucks being lefty.

Like a Ruger #1 set up like that......been on my list for long time as well.

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Not sure of they can (or would) build a lefty.. but they have a pretty decent reputation for building a quality, nice looking stock..

When its all said and done Im going to have probably $800-$900 in it if I end up going with a Walnut Grove gunstock (could bring that down into the $650-$700 range if I went with something from boyds gunstocks).. not exactly cheap.. but not really that much more than a mid grade winchester 70 or rem 700.. and Ill end up with a custom rifle that is much nicer than what I could have bought off the shelf from win/rem/ruger, etc..

One of these days Im going to rescind myself to true rifle snobbery and refuse to refer to the cartridge as 7x57 or 7mm Mauser.. and only allow myself to call it "my .275 Rigby"

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Missed this thread the first time around. Love me some lever actions, still have my Model 94 .30-30, first deer rifle, still in fantastic condition.

Been back and forth over the years about how to scope it, and in fact was looking at it again the other day. How do you like your scope setup Gavin? I assume the top ejection is accounted for with your setup. Can't tell from the picture, did you throw a hammer extender on it?

Not sure of they can (or would) build a lefty.. but they have a pretty decent reputation for building a quality, nice looking stock...

If they can, I'll be on that like TFG on a Bren 10 that's been re-barrelled in .41 AE...

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One of these days Im going to rescind myself to true rifle snobbery and refuse to refer to the cartridge as 7x57 or 7mm Mauser.. and only allow myself to call it "my .275 Rigby"

As long as you only refer to .300 H&H Mag as "the Thousand-Yard Caliber."

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Been back and forth over the years about how to scope it, and in fact was looking at it again the other day. How do you like your scope setup Gavin? I assume the top ejection is accounted for with your setup. Can't tell from the picture, did you throw a hammer extender on it?

I only wish that was mine...it's LPs. I don't run scope on my leverguns generally. I do receiver sights, and take the leaf sights off, and fill the dove-tail with Ranger Point Precision's fillers.

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I generally haven't either, but was toying with the idea of a scope option for caribou up here. I'll check out the RPP stuff too, thanks.

I used to have a fixed 4x scope on my 336 in .35 Rem, had the rings that let me use the irons beneath the scope. Used that for deer and bear hunting in AK. If I was going to mount a scope on a levergun now, it would be a forward scout-type setup

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Only 30-30 I ever had was a Thompson Contender pistol; when I learned about working up my own loads (never fired a factory rifle load). Didn't kill anything with it, but knocked some steel animals down.

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